Beyblade Fan Fiction ❯ That's Life ❯ Chapter 9

Phoenix2185- hello again peeps. Ok then, now on to chapter 9.   Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Beyblade. Leah Khalor belongs to Red Xlll (Morgan), Toni Hikaru LaVelle belongs to Bed ‘N’ Breakfast, and Alicia belongs to herself. I do however own Riley Volkov and Elair and Sarwain Althalus. If you would like to use Riley, Elair, or Sarwin, plz let me know.   ps – Will SOMEONE plz kill that stupid ass bastard Brooklyn? Anyone who does will get a plate full of yummy cookies.    And now, on to the chapter.     Chapter 9.     Riley’s POV          &nb sp;        I sighed for about the hundredth time in the last five minutes before dropping my head to the desk in boredom. Yet again I was in detention; this time however it was not my own fault. Kai had gotten me in trouble for pay back for what I did to his car, in a very crude manner that I wish not to discuss. I did manage to pull him in with me though. He now sat at my left.             To my right was my brother. He, Miguel, and Alicia had stayed Saturday night at Ozuma’s then we all came home Sunday morning. Looking at him now, he had his feet propped up on his desk, his arms behind his head with a slight smirk on his face with his eyes half closed. What he was thinking about, I didn’t really want to know. He was, I learned a few minutes ago, in detention because of my new friend Alicia. Apparently during their last class, she had called him Pinocchio. He countered with bitch, she with man whore, and then he called her a slut. Just his luck though, the teacher happened to be walking by when he said that and told him to go to detention after classes. Needless to say, he was less than impressed. Alicia had just snickered.           &nbs p; Alicia’s first day of school she hung around with me, meeting all my friends. It didn’t take long for her to fit in. She got along real good with Leah, scared the shit out of Johnny because of her height, and got along reasonably well with Mariah.             I sighed yet again. I can’t wait till the dance. At least then there will be something to do for excitement. Wait a sec… holy mother of fuck! I totally forgot!             “Shit!” I exclaimed as my head shot up from my desk. Good thing that the teacher was asleep and didn’t hear me. Kai shot me a glance from where he was sitting and Tala opened his eyes.             “Tala, can you take me shopping after detention? Please, it’s really important.” He gave me an amused expression before shaking his head. “No can do sis. I gotta do somewhere after school with someone. And sorry to say, but you aint comin.” He had that half smirk back on his face as I gaped at him. Did he ever give up?! I let out a cry of frustration as I banged my head back onto the desk. “But I need to get a dress for the dance.” I muttered. Maybe I could convince mom to take me later. I had hoped not to ask her as I’m still not on the best of terms with her yet. “I’ll take you.” I looked at Kai with my mouth hanging open. He smirked and said, “I’d shut you’re mouth if I were you or you’ll start to get flies in there.” I shook my head and closed my mouth. This was not good. He’s planning something, I know it. He’s still trying to get revenge for me painting his car (which he did get the paint removed.). I gave him a suspicious look. “Are you sick?” I reached over to feel his forehead to add an effect. His hand shot out and grabbed my wrist. I closed my eyes expecting to feel pain from him squeezing my wrist but surprisingly he had a gentle hold. I slowly opened my eyes to see him looking at me funny with one of his eyebrows raised. “I have to go to the mall anyway and pick up my tux. I’ll take you with me if you want to go.” He let go of my wrist. “And no, I’m not sick.” I sat there a few minutes thinking about it when the bell rang. Kai stood up then turned back around to me. “Well, are you going to come or not? ‘Cause I’m leaving right now.” And then he turned around and started towards the classroom door. I made up and mind and hurried after him. “Hey, wait up.” I saw him shake his head from in front of me. This was going to be a very long day.       Tala’sPOV        I stood by my car as I waited for my passenger to show up. I smiled when I saw her exit out of the school and start to head towards me. I had asked Leah if she was busy after school today so she could tutor me. I was falling behind in math due to the time that I missed at the beginning of the school year. I’ll tell you one thing, they don’t waist anytime getting started. When she had agreed, I was unusually happy about it. I had admitted to myself last year that I had a thing for the temperamental green eyed beauty, but I knew that she would never be interested in me. Especially with my reputation, but at least I could spend some time with her out side of school without Riley around. Now all I had to do was try to concentrate on the math and not the tutor… I shook my head clear as she came up. “Ready to go?” I asked as I opened up the passenger door for her. What looked liked a blush faintly covered her cheeks as she nodded her head and slid into the seat. Hmmm, maybe I was wrong about her not liking me… and with that thought I got in my side and we started off towards her house.       Kai’s POV       I glanced sideways at Riley as I pulled into the parking lot of the mall. She hadn’t said a word since we had gotten in the car, which was fine by me. I’m still not sure why I offered to give her a drive, other than maybe my feelings from the last few years were still there. I sighed as I ran my hand over my face after I had parked. That thought scared me, but I know that’s more than likely the reason. I had surprised myself a few years back when I had admitted to myself that I actually had an attraction to the wild spitfire. When I had finally told Tala last year, well, let’s just say that I tried to change my mind after that. She sat there with her hands in her lap looking at me waiting for me to signal that we were going in. That was one thing about her. Once she said she was going someplace with someone, she would wait for them. I leaned back against the seat and ran my hands through my hair before reaching over and opening my door. When I did this, she also opened her door and got out walking around to the front and waiting again for me. I stepped out and stretched. I nodded my head once before heading towards the entrance to the mall. I walk through the door and I felt her presence on my right side, but slightly behind. When we had been little she was walking in front of us all at the mall and we stopped to look at something. No one told her that we had stopped and she didn’t notice and kept on walking. She had gotten lost and scared. I had found her a while later in a corner crying. It had really scared her and now she won’t walk in front anymore. I headed into Marshall and Fields before turning around to face Riley. “You go over and try on your dresses and find whatever you’re looking for. I’m heading over there to pick up my tux. I’ll come find you when I’m all done okay?” She looked around for a moment before nodding her head and started to head over to where the dresses were. I turned and headed in the opposite direction. I was in last week to get a tux fitted and was supposed to be picking it up now. When one of the salespersons saw me, he headed over to greet me. “Hello sir, can I help you with anything?” he had is hands behind him and was assessing my attire to see if I was actually fit to shop here. I probably didn’t look it. I had on a pair of baggy black jeans with a rip in one of the knees with a tight black muscle shirt on. Around my neck was a chain with a phoenix charm that I had gotten from Riley a while back for Christmas. “I came in here last week to have a tux fitted. I expect that it’s done by now?” I said coldly. I don’t care much for salespersons. They’re always in your face. “If you would follow me please sir, I will check.” And with that he turned on his heal and headed towards the sales desk. I rolled my eyes before following him, having no other choice.     About twenty minutes later, I walked over to where the dresses were, only to see Riley go into one of the changing rooms. I walked over and leaned against the wall waiting for her to come out. After about five minutes, she came out with a self satisfied smile on her face. She had obviously found what she was looking for. She gave a little start what she noticed me standing there before looking at the price tag on the dress. The smile on her face faded before she sighed and started to put it back on the rack. I raised an eyebrow. “What’s wrong?” she looked over at me after she had returned it to where it came from. She looked at me like it was the most obvious thing in the world, but I saw a look of disappointment beneath. “It’s too expensive.”  Then she turned around to go look at more. I reached out and caught her arm before she could leave. She gave me a questioning looking before I let go of her arm and took the dress back off the rack. “What are you doing? I told you its too expensive, I can’t get it.” I ignored her as I headed back over to the sales desk. “Kai! What are you doing?” I kept on going but answered her. “You liked the dress and that’s saying something. It’s not easy to get you to like a dress. This is a once in a lifetime thing I think, so I’ll get it for you.” I heard her footsteps stop. I stopped and turned around to face her. Her steal eyes showed disbelief and gratitude. “You really don’t have to. It’s just a stupid dress. And I don’t need your charity.” I sighed. “It’s not charity, and I know I don’t have to but I want to. So quit trying to change my mind before I do and you end up with a shitty dress. Now come on.” Sometimes she could be more stubborn than Tyson. I heard her mumble a ‘thanks’ before she continued to follow me. I paid for the dress and handed the bag to her. When our hands brushed against each other I kept mine there for a moment before she looked up. I gave her a slight grin before turning around and heading out.     Riley’s POV       As we walked into Ardine’s, I still couldn’t believe that Kai actually bought that dress for me. After I had gotten over the initial shock, I had persuaded him to come to Ardine’s with me so I could get another piercing. He had looked at me with a slightly amused expression before he had asked me where I was going to get pierced. I had smacked him on the arm before calling him a pervert and telling him that I was going to get my ear pierced again. He had shaken his head before he headed towards my wanted destination. I glanced nervously over my shoulder when I made it to the sales desk to see where he had gone when I felt his presence leave. He was over by the chains checking them out. The sales clerk cleared her throat trying to get my attention. I turned back to her and smiled. “Hi, I would like to get my ear pierced.” A slight smile came over her hard features when she saw how many piercings in my ears I already had. “Where are you going to put them?” she asked jokingly as she walked over to where I was to sit down. I grinned back at her and pointed to the top of my left ear. “Right here please.” Her smiled brightened at my politeness. See, I can be nice when I want to be. I went over and sat down. By now, Kai had come over to where we were. “If you want, you can miss ear and go through her brain and kill her. I’m sure no one will miss her. Well, Johnny might, but he’ll get over it.” He jumped up and sat on the counter watching us. I stuck my tongue out at him. “Just ignore him. He’s full of shit.” The lady, unfazed by my change of attitude shook and head and mumbled something about teenagers before going over to the earring choices. “What one would you like dear?” I looked at my choices before a silver stud caught my eye. “Number 44 please, if there are any left.” That’s the only thing, sometimes they don’t have the one that you want. She bent her head looking for the right one. Taking one off the shelf she turned back towards me. “You’re in luck, this is the last one.” She got out her pen and marked on my ear where to put it, loaded the ear gun thing and placed it over my ear. “This is going to hurt.” I closed my eyes and waited. “You look like you’re going to have an orgasm.” I opened my eyes to glare at him when the salesclerk put the stud through my ear. “OWWW! Shit!” Note to self: it hurts worse on the top of the ear than it does on the bottom. The lady cleaned up all the stuff before going over to get the after care sheet for me. I got off the stool and walked up to Kai who had now gotten off the counter. I gave him my best glare before smacking him in the back of the head as hard as I could. “Hey, that hurt.” I cocked an eyebrow. Did Kai just whine? Scary. “Ya, well it serves you right. If you hadn’t distracted me, getting my ear wouldn’t have hurt so badly. So there!” I got out my wallet and paid for the piercing. As we walked out of the store, Kai glanced down at me. “You hungry?” he asked before looking back up. Now that I think about it, I am kinda hungry. After all, I hadn’t had lunch today. “Sure. Where to?” he stopped to think for a second before shrugging. “It doesn’t matter to me. Where do you want to go?” oh goodie, I get to pick. I love picking where to eat. After that day on the beach with Ozuma I’ve been on an ice cream rampage, so that helped me make up my mind. “How ‘bout ice cream.” Kai dropped his head in defeat. “What? If you didn’t want ice cream you shouldn’t have left it up to me. You offered, now we’re going to have ice cream.” He shook his head with a scowl on his face. “It’s not that. It’s just that when I start to eat ice cream I get hooked to it for a month or more and it’s not the greatest thing in the world for you.” “So there is a food that you like? Wow, and here I thought you were anorexic or something.” “Whatever. Come on then, let’s go.” After we had ordered our ice cream, mine Death by Chocolate and his just plain Chocolate, we went to find a place to sit down in the crowded food court. “Geeze, it aint crowed in here or nothing today. Bloody Hell! Watch where you’re goin asshole.” I was not in the best of moods ‘cause I wanted to eat my ice cream before it melted and people bumping into me is very agitating. I head Kai let out a chuckle before sitting down at an empty place. I looked at him surprised. Did he just chuckle? Okay, he is really starting to scare me today. I shrugged my shoulders before taking a seat across from him. While I was eating my ice cream and looking around at all the people scurrying around like little ants, I felt Kai’s thoughtful gaze on me. I could tell that he wanted to ask me something, but until then I was content with the silence. Tala had actually approved of Ozuma after sitting down with him after I had gone to bed on Saturday night. Even Miguel liked Oz’s attitude. Speaking of Miguel, I hadn’t seen him all day. And where the hell had Tala gone and with whom that was so important that he couldn’t take me to the mall. Unless he had an ‘appointment’ with one of his female friends. That’s the one thing I hate about my brother. That and anyone can see that it breaks Leah’s heart when she sees him with another girl or flirting with everything that has a skirt on. “How come you didn’t tell anyone?” Huh? I looked back at Kai. That obviously must have been the question that he had wanted to ask. However, did he have to ask such a personal question? After the other night, I had put what had happened behind me, and now he goes and brings it up again. The explanation we had used on everyone else was that we just wanted to stay on vacation a little longer. They all bought it. But Kai had known the truth so I suppose it was only a matter of time before he asked. “Because my family problems were none of you’re guy’s business. That and I didn’t want you’re pity.” And that was the truth. I hadn’t wanted their pity. I had told Johnny because he was my best friend and he had known that I didn’t want his pity. We sat there in silence for a few minutes eating our ice cream. “Is that the reason that you were so upset the first day of school?” You have to give the guy some credit; he can be quit perceptive. I slowly nodded my head. I saw him give a slight nod of his head from the corner of my eye before he finished his ice cream and reached over to through the bowl in the trash bin. He sat back up and put his hands behind his head and closed his eyes while waiting for me to finish up. This last week has been a little on the strange side. Sure Kai executed his revenge for his car, but it was nothing…ruthless like it would normally be. And then today he offered to take me shopping when my brother wouldn’t, and then bought the dress that I had picked out. Not to mention his almost playful nature today. When he whined about me hitting him in the arm and then when he chuckled a few minutes ago. It’s seems that there is more to Kai Hiwatari than meets the eye. After I finished my ice cream and threw out the bowl we got up and headed towards the exit. As we were going by CD Plus, a CD caught my attention. I tugged at Kai’s sleeve and pointed into the store like a two year old. He cocked an eyebrow before turning to go inside. I smiled in victory as I too headed into the store. When I walked in, Kai was already over by himself looking through some of the new releases. No doubt looking for the new LostProphets album. I walked over to the other side of the store to see if I could find Linkin Park’s album Meteora. I had gotten it the first week it had come out, but I had lent it to someone who lent it to someone else ext. ext. And now I have no idea where in the world it is. I let out a sigh of relief when I found what I was looking for. Picking it up, I turned around only to bump into a hard chest. As I stumbled back, I looked up. Standing in front of me with a smirk on his face was a reasonable tall guy with orange hair. He was wearing a white uniform and I vaguely wondered where he was from that he would be wearing a uniform. “A fine selection for a fine piece of ass if you don’t mind me saying.” I gaped at his rudeness. How dare he! His smirk widened at my shock. “Forgive me, my name is Brooklyn. (AN stupid fucking no good for nothing bastard grrrrr…… sry, on with the story) You look pretty lonely, why don’t you leave with me, I can give you a ride. Maybe we could stop by at my place?” I glared at him. If there is anyone that I hate worse than Vikki, its people who think that they can manipulate people. God that fuckin pisses me off. “Fuck off asshole.” I turned to go around him, but he reached out and grabbed my arm stopping me. He pushed me against the shelf with his own body as he leaned closer to my face. I was starting to get nervous now. “I’m noting going anywhere sweetheart.” He replied darkly. Surely he wouldn’t do anything here in front of all these people. I tried to swallow my rising fear. I could see the look of pleasure that crossed his face as he saw the fear on mine. Suddenly, his weight was thrown off my. I sank to my knees in relief. “She told you to fuck off. Are you deaf or something Curtis?” Kai was now standing in front of me. I couldn’t see his face, but I could see him clenching and unclenching his fist. Brooklyn pulled himself up off the floor. “Well, well, well. If it isn’t Hiwatari? How are you doing on this fine day?” when Kai didn’t say anything, he continued. “That’s a nice little piece of ass you have there. I was just complimenting her on it. I don’t suppose you’d want to give her up would you?” “Aren’t you on the wrong side of town Brooklyn?” so that would explain why I had never seen the arrogant bastard. Kai’s comment didn’t seem to faze Brooklyn at all. “I was ass shopping. And I did find some before you had to interfere.” Brooklyn’s voice had gone from calm and sly, to dark and dangerous in a matter of seconds. I heard Kai growl deep in his throat before he lost his cool. “Watch your mouth.” Then his fist came faster than I could have imagined and hit Brooklyn square in the jaw, knocking him backwards again. Kai sharply turned around and grabbed my arm in a firm but gentle grip and helped me to my feet. I saw now that the look on Kai’s face was one of pure rage. I had never seen him so mad. I think that that fight had more meaning to it than I thought. He let go of my arm and walked around the squirming Brooklyn who was clutching his malady mumbling something about his beautiful face. Give me a break. “Come on, let’s go.” I looked back to see Kai standing there waiting for me. I followed him out, the Linkin Park CD now forgotten on the floor. As we walked down the hall we didn’t say anything. When we had first walked out he had asked if I was alright and I said that I was. We were now going by the water fountain again on our way out. I was the first to break the silence. “Thanks. For stopping that creep back there I mean.” He just kept on walking and I thought for a second that he hadn’t heard me. I was about to repeat myself when he finally answered. “You’re welcome.” I was now more than a little curious about how the two of them knew each other. “How do you know him anyway?” I could sense him tense from beside me, but he answered anyway. “He used to be on my Martial Arts team that my Grandfather founded. During a really big tournament, he up and switched sides. We would have won too, but we were short a player so we were disqualified.” Now this shocked me. “I didn’t know that you were on a team. When was that?” “Two or three years ago. Tala was on the team too. We weren’t allowed to tell anyone, that and I think you were in horseback riding a lot that year and were away to your own tournaments. If it makes you feel any better, no one else knew either.” Now that I stop and think about it, I hadn’t seen much of him nor Tala that summer. I had thought it was just because I was the one away a lot. Well, that’s all cleared up. “Kai darling! There you are!” Oh no, I know that voice and it’s not a voice that I like. Shit. “I was looking all over for you, where have you been sweetheart.” Vapor came up and latched herself onto Kai’s arm. He had a look of pure disgust on his face and Vapor didn’t even seem to notice. What a fucking dumb blond. I let out a laugh at Kai’s predicament. He tried to manage a glare as best as he could with a psychotic blond bimbo on his arm. “What are you laughing at slut?” I tensed up. I hate being called a slut. When she loosened her grip on his arm, Kai managed to pull his arm free. Vapor advanced on me. She better not say anything more about me if she knows what’s good for her. She’s already got me pissed off. “And what are you doing here with my Kai anyway? I thought I warned you the other day to leave him alone. Why dot you go run off home, or do you still have to stand on the street ‘till it gets dark?” That does it! The Bitch is going down. I reached out fast that I thought I could manage and slapped her as hard as I could. You could see a red hand print start to form almost right after I had hit her. She let out a yelp of horror before she reached out and slapped me back, catching me off guard. I had had enough of this bull shit. I went to lung towards her to give her the face lift of the century, when I felt an arm grab me around the waist, causing me to stop. “Vikki, get lost. I thought I already made it clear that we are no more. You got that? No. More. Now, go, before I decide to let her go and it will take quit a bit of cover up to cover up what she would do to you.” The look on Vikki’s face was priceless. She looked as if she were about to break down and cry, but she gathered herself, gave me her best glare that was pretty pitiful and then stormed off. I felt Kai relax after she was out of sight, but he still had his arm around my waist. When he had grabbed me to stop what I was about to do, it had caused my shirt to rise up some. Where our skin touched, it sent shivers through me and I found myself wondering if it would feel as good if he were to run his hands farther up my shirt or down my arms. These thoughts brought a blush to my face. Why was he still holding on to my waist, and better yet, why was I having these thoughts about my worst enemy and while I already had a boyfriend? Life just kept becoming more and more confusing.         Phoenix2185-………wow …… you know, I’m actually very pleased with this chapter. I hope you guys were too. And as for a certain friend of mine, and I wont say any names eh Jess. Anyway, there you go. The beginning of two relationships in one chapter, now will you plz leave me alone about it? Thank you. And I can’t believe how quick I typed this chapter up. I think I did it in record time. Lol  anyway. Stay tuned for the next chapter. Until next time, talk atcha’s later   R&R plz                                      &nb sp;              ;             & nbsp;            &nb sp;                         &nb sp;              ;